10/07/2020 - 16:54
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While it was expected that on Wednesday afternoon the national government would present the epidemiological indicators (they could take the form of a "traffic light of risk") that it will suggest to the provinces to determine the
re-linking of students with their schools
in the context of the current coronavirus pandemic,
Clarín
made a survey on what attitude the governments of the 24 districts of the country would take regarding a possible return to the classroom.
Buenos aires city
While waiting for definitions from the National Ministry of Education to implement its containment plan for 6,500 students who lost contact with the educational system, the Buenos Aires Ministry of Education enabled this Wednesday a meeting space at the Parque Patricios sports center in which about one hundred students participated .
As explained from Education of the City, they will continue adding different centers in the neighborhoods to try to reconnect with the school those 6,500 students with difficulties that they have identified.
Buenos Aires
The province of Buenos Aires has already developed
its own protocol
for the
staggered return
to classes, but everything will be conditioned to the decision of the health authorities.
Governor Axel Kicillof announced that the return will be for parties that have passed phase 3 of isolation (the most restrictive today).
This excludes 45 parties from the possibility of an immediate return to the classroom, among which are all those of the AMBA, Mar del Plata and Bahía Blanca.
At the same time, at the moment
there is no date for the presence
in the cities of the interior, even in those that have few cases of covid-19.
The Tres de Febrero party carried out a pilot test to raise a proposal to return to classes for the sixth years of each year.
The Buenos Aires government argues that
the decisions are sanitary and not academic
.
And that in order to guarantee access to schooling, an operation will begin in the next few days to bring advanced teaching students closer to some 320,000 children and adolescents who dropped out of school.
As reported by the Government, more than 15 thousand applicants have already signed up to intervene in this program of re-linking with the educational system.
Santa Fe
The total of new cases of coronavirus in Santa Fe once again doubled that of the city of Buenos Aires this Tuesday, with 2,208 new infections.
In this context, the provincial government
ruled out enabling face-
to-
face classes
in the short term.
The Minister of Education, Adriana Cantero, argued that the district is at a
"critical moment"
in epidemiological matters and raised the reopening of rural schools in the center and north of the province as the only possible exception.
Although this week they plan to analyze district by district to see if it is possible to advance in a return to the classroom in the second half of the month, Cantero clarified that only those localities where there is a "community bubble" would do so.
That is,
students and teachers live in the same area
.
Mendoza
Until Tuesday night, the Mendoza School Directorate insisted that
the epidemiological conditions were not in place
to think about a return to face-to-face classes.
He was just waiting to know what the Nation will have to support its decision against being present, for epidemiological reasons (it is the fifth province with the most infections) or because the schools are not in building conditions.
Neither do the teachers' unions support the return to the classroom.
An empty classroom in Mendoza.
Photo José Gutiérrez / Los Andes.
But Governor Rodolfo Suárez said on Wednesday that if the epidemiological situation allows it, children who had connectivity problems with their teachers and those who are having
learning difficulties
could return to face-to-face classes
.
It is estimated that in this situation there are about 9,000 students.
“Now that the weather permits, we are evaluating being able to reach those students with
weaker trajectories
.
An assistance in some neighborhoods, outdoors or in a large room to reach vulnerable sectors, ”Suárez explained, and said that he also evaluates that fifth and sixth year high school students return to some kind of presence.
Chubut
The Minister of Education of Chubut, Florencia Peratta, clarified that in the province "work is being done to be able to re-float
the summer school
, to be able to provide school support to students, in the face of what will be the 2021 cycle", thus ruling out the possibility that face-to-face classes will be resumed before the end of the year.
The outbreak of coronavirus accentuated in recent weeks in the province caused
the idea of going back to school for the remainder of the year
to
be abandoned
.
Peratta, who participated in a videoconference with the Minister of Education of the Nation, explained that it was established that in those jurisdictions where sanitary conditions admit it, "a re-linking will be launched", not a traditional class dictation.
"In the province, at the moment the conditions are not in place so that this can be done during this school period. That is why we are thinking of refloating the summer school," Peratta said.
And he added: "It is the possibility that we have of, at least, recover the face-to-face school, since today the outbreak of the pandemic in the province makes it
impossible
for us
to think of anything else
."
Santiago del Estero
In Santiago del Estero, a class protocol had already been authorized in August: students from the last years of both primary and secondary school would return to the classrooms.
But the initiative was put on hold due to the explosion of covid-19 infections.
Today the province has community circulation of the virus and the possibility of resuming the process back to the classrooms
is subject to the epidemiological situation
(which for now is serious).
This was told to
Clarín
by provincial education authorities.
saint Louis
In San Luis, face-to-face classes were returned to some schools in Covid-19-free locations,
voluntarily and with protocols
.
A school in San Luis in times of covid-19.
Next week, five more schools will join the classroom, but a massive return to the schools will not take place for now.
The Minister of Education, Andrés Dermerchkoff, explained to
Clarín
that "each province would return according to its health status and particular conditions."
"If they tell me, for example, that sixth grade and the last year of high school are coming back on Monday, it doesn't give me the time to train teachers, female teachers, not teachers," Dermerchkoff said.
"There are many factors to take into account at the time of presence, and also to be sure of the return all establishments must have the
elements of protection and hygiene
established by our protocols," he added.
The return, if given, would be voluntary.
Currents
The Minister of Education of Corrientes, Susana Benítez, assured that
the conditions
for the return of face-to-face classes
are not
in place in that province
.
"We cannot take risks," he said.
"Although the province of Buenos Aires has lowered the curve, the disease has moved to the interior of the country," added the official.
And she assured that in Corrientes "we are going to continue evaluating the evolution of the pandemic."
About the end of the school year, he said that “today
we can take the final evaluations virtually
after modifying the regulations in force.
Students will have the possibility to pass the year virtually ”.
Missions
The Minister of Education of Misiones, Miguel Sedoff, said that in the province it
will be Governor
Oscar Herrera Ahuad
who will determine
the moment when students will return to classrooms.
"It will be at the time that he deems prudent," he said.
And he announced that this decision will be made with "sufficient health and scientific support."
“I cannot say at this moment [when the face-to-face classes will return], because it depends on our health situation.
Our intention, I have been saying for a long time, is to return, because school is face-to-face, it is meeting, it is socialization, as well as transmission of content ”, added Sedoff.
Misiones has suffered a sustained increase in covid-19 cases since September.
The Pampa
In La Pampa, face-to-face classes returned on September 14, after an agreement between the Government and the teachers' unions.
The directors of each school defined who would return to face-to-face classes for primary schools and secondary schools.
Those who lost the pedagogical link were included, which are only a
few dozen boys and girls per school
.
They are going one day a week, for an hour and a half: with social distancing, respecting a protocol and using alcohol gel.
In addition,
two schedules were established
: one group enters at eight in the morning (leaves at half past nine) and another enters at ten in the morning and leaves at eleven thirty.
The same happens in the afternoon shift, with two groups staying in the schools for an hour and a half each.
The teachers wear a chinstrap and mask.
Black river
In Río Negro they announced that they
will follow the determinations indicated by the Ministry of Education of the Nation
.
"We follow all the guidelines set by the Nation. We have no other position,"
an official source
assured
Clarín
.
The Patagonian province has more than 200 thousand students.
Neuquen
In Neuquén, they are waiting for definitions from the Ministry of Health of the Nation on a health protocol that could be used in the classroom.
Regarding the return to classes, the governor of the province, Omar Gutiérrez, told LU5: “First you have to develop a protocol and think about who would be the first to return.
It is very difficult for childhoods to respect distancing
. "
"For now there is nothing decided,"
sources close to the president
told
Clarín
.
Cordova
The Minister of Education, Walter Grahovac, said on Wednesday that Córdoba
will not return to
face-to-face
classes
in schools for now, because the province is "in the worst scenario" of the coronavirus pandemic.
"In the interior of the country, in Córdoba and the same happens in Santa Fe, whose provinces and the NOE, we are in the worst situation of virus circulation," said Grahovac in reference to "cases of contagion, the increase in deaths, the use of beds with respirators and the lack of medical personnel, "he said.
Between rivers
The Minister of Education of Entre Ríos, Felipe de los Ríos, commented that face-to-face classes could return first in the departments that
do not have cases
of coronavirus.
Chaco
The Chaco Ministry of Education assured that next week face-to-face classes will return in rural schools and for students who are first or seventh grade, for the primary level, and first and fifth or sixth year, depending on the entity's modality, for medium level.
The return is
scheduled for Tuesday, October 13
.
Formosa
The
Schools in remote areas of Formosa, belonging to the Education Delegation of the capital, resumed their classroom activities respecting health protocols.
We worked with all the directors to organize the days and times.
For example, twice a week a 1st A can go: Monday and Wednesday, two hours a day;
and the rest continue with virtual tasks, all within the framework of a protocol.
Jump
The Minister of Education of Salta, Matías Cánepa, reported that the conditions to open schools are not in place:
the boys will not return to the classrooms this year
, the official reported, according to
La Gaceta Salta.
Cánepa pointed out that weeks ago progress was evaluated with the return of fifth-year high school students and seventh-grade elementary school students.
"But reality tells us that the possibility of going back to the classroom will not be feasible," said the official.
Cánepa said that one possibility, and according to the epidemiological situation, is that there is a
gradual return to classrooms in rural schools
, in areas where there is no epidemiological crisis and where students have greater difficulty in connectivity.
Jujuy
Jujuy has planned a partial and staggered return to the classrooms for students in the last years of primary and secondary school, but
still without a specific date
, because it will depend on each jurisdiction and an evaluation of the learning obtained by the virtual system.
Tucuman
In Tucumán
there will be no face-to-face classes for now
.
And there is no date for the expected return to classrooms.
Catamarca
In Catamarca,
face-to-face classes were suspended due to the growth in the number of infections.
There is no date for his return.
The Rioja
The possibility of the return of face-to-face classes in La Rioja this year are few.
Education Minister Ariel Martínez said that "we still do not have a probable date for returning to the classroom" due to the epidemiological situation in the province.
San Juan
The governor of San Juan, Sergio Uñac, assessed that the return to face-to-face classes in the province "is a possibility" to the extent that it can "
agree with the unions on
the necessary care."
Santa Cruz
The Government works with families and teachers the protocols for the return to face-to-face classes, although
"still without date"
and in combination with the virtual, it was officially reported after a videoconference that Governor Alicia Kirchner held last Monday with the Minister of Education of the Nation, Nicolás Trotta.
Land of Fire
There will be no face-to-face classes for now.
The Ministry of Education confirmed that in the province the decision is to
support distance education
.
Reports: Correspondents from Chubut, Mendoza, La Pampa, Santiago del Estero, Misiones, San Luis, La Plata, Rosario and Bariloche.
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